N2Growth Blog

JUNE 6, 2024

The C-Suite Executives Role in Business Strategy The C-Suite executive team comprises the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Chief Operating Officer (COO), and other high-ranking ‘chief’ executives.

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Chief Financial Officer Chief Operating Officer Chief Executive Officer Leadership 221

Rich Gee Group

MARCH 9, 2015

Incredibly efficient two-way communication. Blog Business Coaching C-Level Career Coaching Tip CEO CFO Coaching Communication Delegation Information Management Motivation Obstacles Performance VP' The best tool to learn how to motivate is Dale Carnegie’s: How to Win Friends and Influence People. What does this really mean?

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Skills Emotional Intelligence CFO Delegation 150

HR Digest

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

However, whispers from those whove seen Google layoffs document suggest its a lean, mean efficiency drive. A hefty bet has been placed on AI, says CFO Anat Ashkenazi, whos vowed to tighten belts as Google layoffs for better AI investment ramps up. The Google’s internal layoff leaked memo frames efficiency as the driving goal.

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Document CFO Efficiency Engineering 52

Lead Change Blog

MAY 1, 2017

Everyone knows the roles and responsibilities for a CEO, CFO and CTO but change the wording and a different picture emerges. Linda recaps: “Great leadership is often defined based on efficiency, effectiveness or profitability, but that’s no way to define a journey of character building and authenticity.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership CTO 264

Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Therefore, a product manager must earn the trust of people in the organization and influence them to do their jobs effectively and efficiently. Smart product managers know the value of having allies in the CFO’s office. Product management — at every level — is a leadership role within the organization.

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Products Productivity Management Leadership 182

Lead Change Blog

MARCH 11, 2021

When I met James as well as the company’s CEO and CFO over Zoom, I told them that we should admit that COVID-19 seriously interrupted our world and will not disappear anytime soon. Guiding Back to Efficiency. COVID-19 and the Attentional Bias.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 21, 2020

They ensure that the money of organizations, governments, and individuals is spent efficiently. If you work in the field long enough, you can go from a staff accountant to an executive position such as a CFO. Chief Financial Officer (CFO). CFO is one of the end goal positions for all accountants. Good luck with that.

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CFO Career Chief Financial Officer Finance 65

Women on Business

JANUARY 25, 2011

It’s not rocket science, but it is surprising how many CFO’s and managers don’t stop to evaluate the effectiveness of their meetings. Assign tasks and ask if there are questions. Wrap up the meeting with a summary of accomplishments and next steps action items. Be the change you see in your meetings!

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Press Release Discount PR Magazine 140

HR Digest

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The HR is supposed to be a true partner to the CEO, just like the CFO. Because organizations depend on a fair balance between workforce and jobs to be efficient, the CHRO skills are largely required to model job requirements and realistic assessment of the individuals assigned to perform the duties. That’s absolutely wrong.

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CEO CFO Human Resources McKinsey 63

HR Digest

AUGUST 29, 2020

During Accenture’s June 25 financial analyst conference call CEO Julie Sweet stated: “As I’ve said before, we’ve recognized some real areas of efficiencies and so there are of course headcount implications to it, which is what you’re calling lay-offs.”

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Attrition Crisis CFO Long-term 52

CO2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Notice in the example I’ve provided below (which is organized by function) how the CEO has the COO promotion ready, and the COO has two possible candidates (both the CFO and the VP of Operations) and has chosen the VP of Operations. While it makes sense for direct reports to be succession candidates, don’t feel obligated to go this route.

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Leadership Styles COO Learning-by-Doing Planning 87

CO2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Notice in the example I’ve provided below (which is organized by function) how the CEO has the COO promotion ready, and the COO has two possible candidates (both the CFO and the VP of Operations) and has chosen the VP of Operations. While it makes sense for direct reports to be succession candidates, don’t feel obligated to go this route.

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Leadership Styles COO Learning-by-Doing Planning 78

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. And once this is done (and it makes the sales process about 600% more efficient), then we can sell. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P. The result?

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Servant Leader Newsletter Resources CFO 50

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Provide refunds quickly and efficiently. Use technology to provide quick, efficient customer service. Never make your customers jump through hoops to do business with you. Have a return policy that is easy to understand and that puts the interests of the customer first. My experience with Zappos was great. magazine.

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Learning-by-Doing Price Bottom-up Finance 62

Strategy Driven

JULY 27, 2011

Sharon Drew explores what happens when he stumbles in the dark trying to bring his fellow managers, the internal tech team (which is responsible for the current site), and the CFO (to whom the tech team reports) on board. She then presents the same situation using Buying Facilitation ®. The result?

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Case Study Technology Resistance Project 50

Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Graham Keen "Inspirational CEO/CFO turned positive-psychologist resiliently transforming businesses & financial performance." I am adept at establishing policies, procedures, and technologies to enhance efficiency, financial health, and service to organize constituents. ​ ​1.

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Brand Examples Career Godin 68

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2017

The answer involves radically reframing one of the mainstays of the C-suite — the role of the CFO. It’s no longer adequate or acceptable for CFOs to simply focus on managing the financial risks of a company. Some CFOs are working with their CISOs and CIOs to actually model their cyber exposure gap.

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CFO CIO Budgeting Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

The team consisted of an executive committee from Headquarters (comprised of the CEO, CFO, Head of Operations, Head of Business Analysis, and our Group Head of Sales), and then the General Manager of each subsidiary. Market share expanded, cost controls tightened, safety improved, operational efficiency peaked, and so did profits.

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P&L Globalization CFO Operations 16

Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Entrepreneurs are actually not risk takers,” says X.com CFO Roelof Botha. If a product had a high idiot index, its cost could be reduced significantly by devising more efficient manufacturing techniques. They’re risk mitigators. They never seek to amplify it, instead, they try to figure out the controllable wiles minimize their risk.”

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CFO Learning-by-Doing Engineering Sharpe 434

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Competition and customer demands mean that the most efficient and effective process should always be sought — but finding it requires contributions from the people doing the work. In my last post , I argued that you should start process innovation by asking front-line workers how to improve their jobs.

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Attrition CFO Deming Outsourcing 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

Consider how USAA – the nation’s 6 th largest consumer P&C insurer – has reinvented how marketing, finance and data analytics work together, starting with a first-ever partnership between the CMO, CFO and Chief Data Analytics officer.

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Finance Marketing P&L ROI 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

One of my students, a mid-sized company CFO, told me that every budget season he personally went through all the budgets to identify inefficiencies. After a discussion about freeing up time, he scheduled calls with his country CFOs and GMs, inviting them to find better efficiencies.

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Porter Delegation Learning-by-Doing Project 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Competition and customer demands mean that the most efficient and effective process should always be sought — but finding it requires contributions from the people doing the work. In my last post , I argued that you should start process innovation by asking front-line workers how to improve their jobs.

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Attrition CFO Deming Outsourcing 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

If they remove waste, errors, and time from these processes, they will get cost efficiency as a byproduct. CFO Ric Magnuson says that the change has forced managers to develop a much better understanding of the work in their departments, particularly which activities truly matter. There have been challenges.

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Budgeting Chief Financial Officer Cost CFO 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

It is also impossible to maintain consistency and efficiency when independent groups all pursue analytics in their own way. The CAO should be under an executive that naturally spans all of the business units that have analytical needs, such as the Chief Strategy Officer, the CFO, and the COO.

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Company COO Information Technology CFO 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

This week the CFO came under scrutiny from no less than Andrew Ross Sorkin of the New York Times. So in theory, for Facebook, the maximum number of efficient connections is roughly 950 million x 150; anything greater than that will yield an inefficient network that risks implosion. But Facebook is already well beyond that point.

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CFO Quality Efficiency Download 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

People who have earned these belts drive projects with clear financial targets set at the top organization, with progress monitored by the CFO. Six Sigma zealots argue that if you train enough people, you get a cultural transformation. You instill process improvement into the corporate DNA.

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Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

But according to cognitive science , everybody, by virtue of having a brain that’s constantly seeking efficiency, is biased in some way — and not all biases make us actively malicious. It’s just as powerful when we read our own words about how incredibly well Marta led the meeting with the CFO back in February.

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Performance Review Review How To CFO 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

They figure out how much the new computer system and software will cost and they compare that with the cash flow generated through efficiencies (assuming they know how to analyze returns based on cash flow). When the CFO analyzed it and said “No way,” the owner got another CFO. Of course not. ” Guess what?

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Finance NPV CFO ROI 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

Peter Currie , our CFO, and I were doing it, and I said, “All right, one last question.” If they can add it to their core, they add it, and try to be as efficient as they can be, because there are efficiencies in bundling. It was our last show and we were in a big hurry to get the plane.

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How To Technology Industry Venture Capitalist 20

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Don’t optimize for efficiency. Your business model is still in flux, and flexibility is more valuable than efficiency and cost savings. Your team isn’t big enough to really reap the rewards of these efficiencies. I’ve just spent paragraphs talking about operations, analytics, and efficiency.

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Metrics Engineering Learning-by-Doing Efficiency 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

Well, he's a hedge fund veteran who has always taken a skeptical view of Wall Street, treating it more as a loopy rich uncle than the efficient information processor of standard finance theory. How has Bezos done this? Nobody complains.

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Training Bond Christensen Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

The promise of today’s breakthroughs is not just efficiency – it’s unleashing value creation and capture in a time of mounting performance pressure. Optimized for efficiency rather than discovery and experimentation, their innovation and growth will stall. Rethink your efficiency conversations.

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Efficiency Learning-by-Doing CFO Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2018

That’s because when a new leader takes hold, changes aren’t just about efficiency or revenue; they are also about people’s feelings of vulnerability and uncertainty about what the changes will mean for them. But rushing toward early wins, even in areas that seem uncontroversial, can be unexpectedly hazardous.

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Supply Chain CEO Kahneman Self-aware 15

Lead Change Blog

JUNE 25, 2020

In their CFO Magazine piece, “ How An Obsession with Metrics Is Killing Your Company ”, authors Alexander Van Caeneghem and Jean-Marie Bequevort , write, “The quest for financial performance and the pressure to measure can corrode organizational cultures, narrow the focus of leadership, reduce intrinsic motivation, and support unethical behavior.

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P&L ROE Metrics CFO 220

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

It is also impossible to maintain consistency and efficiency when independent groups all pursue analytics in their own way. The CAO should be under an executive that naturally spans all of the business units that have analytical needs, such as the Chief Strategy Officer, the CFO, and the COO.

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Company COO Analysis CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2015

The challenges are tougher for more established organizations where CEOs may publicly value consistent incremental efficiencies over new value creation and new markets. What would inspire the CFO or CEO to talk to investors about a major innovation underway? There, innovators need to be better attuned to the tone at the top.

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